Help With Your Pregnancy

Community-based,
care coordination
for
improving the
health
and
well-being
of
North Carolinians.

Pregnancy Care Management

Pregnancy Care Management (PCM) is a program in North Carolina for women with Medicaid insurance. It helps them to be stay healthy while they are pregnant and to have a healthy baby. The program helps women who are at high risk due to:

Having had a pre-term baby (born before 37 weeks)

Chronic illnesses such as diabetes, asthma or high blood pressure

Substance use (alcohol, drugs and tobacco)

Living in an unsafe home

Starting prenatal care later than the first 12 weeks of pregnancy

Each patient in the PCM program has a Pregnancy Care Manager. Pregnancy Care Managers are a nurse or social worker that work with each patient’s doctor. They help to: